Another city is added to the long list of those who have been stigmatized by incidents that go beyond human reason and put the issue back on the table. huge problem of gun ownership and its powerful lobby in the US.The school year would end in two days at Primary school of Unvalde, Texas, with 16,000 residents, when an 18-year-old stormed cut the thread of life in 19 children, not older than 10 years and two adults. What drives an 18-year-old to cause such a massacre at school? What is finally happening in this country?
Baden: “We must act”
There are no answers and worst of all, there are no solutions as long as politics in the country across the Atlantic is prisoners of the NRAdominated by powerful politicians, gun lobbyists and public figures in the US. The new drama in elementary school found US President Biden returning from a visit to Japan. At the White House, with his black-clad wife Jill by his side and tears in his eyes, he said that “I’m tired of it. We must act. And do not tell me that we can not influence this massacre. I spent my career as a Senator and Vice President working on passing gun laws that reach common sense. “We can not and will not prevent every tragedy, but we know that (the laws) work and have a positive impact.”
Biden’s statement is outlined in the most characteristic way the limits on a president’s institutional tools to control a timeless scourge, which now has the dimensions of an “epidemic” of armed violence. Jake Bleiberg, a reporter for the Associated Press, describes it very aptly.
“It has become almost normal in all US”
“This is now the deadliest school incident in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Connecticut killed 20 people,” he said. “And it comes less than two weeks after a gunman in Buffalo opened fire on a supermarket, killing ten people, in an attack that was described as a hate crime and appeared to specifically target blacks. “It simply came to our notice then.
Details of the Latin American-born perpetrator, like most of the town of Unwalde, are slowly coming to light. However, it seems that he planned his heinous act and carried it out until he was found by police bullets. It is a diabolical coincidence that next weekend the NRA gun organization is organizing the annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The two Texas Republican senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornin, are expected to attend, as well as former President Trump. Cruz said he was praying for the victims of the school in Unwald, but also warned Democratic politicians and members of the press not to try to restrict their constitutional rights. “A crime cannot be prevented,” he said.
DW / Irini Anastassopoulou / AP, DPA, Reuters
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